- Automating Key Fingerprint Comparisons in Secure Mobile Messaging Apps: A Case Study of Signal
Mashari Alatawi and Nitesh Saxena
In the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), June 2024.
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Dr. Saxena Joins U.S. AI Safety Consortium Effort
Dr. Saxena will be part of the pivotal initiative on Texas A&M’s engagement in the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium with NIST, a collaboration that brings together over 200 of America’s top AI stakeholders to promote the development of AI that is safe, secure, and trustworthy.
For more information about the program, please visit the TAMIDS website.
Two SPIES graduates starting as professors…
Zengrui Liu and Cagri Arisoy, the latest PhD graduates from the SPIES lab, are both starting as tenure-track assistant professors this Spring. Zengrui will be joining the College of Information Engineering at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. Cagri will be joining the College Engineering Computer Engineering department at the Yozgat Bozok University. Turkey.
Congratulations to both! They will be applying their unique education, research and teaching skills to serve their home countries!
3 new PhD students join the SPIES lab
A warm welcome to the three new members of the SPIES Lab, starting their PhD degrees in Spring 2024.
Journal paper accepted to ACM TOPS 2023
- Sound-based Two-Factor Authentication: Vulnerabilities and Redesign
Prakash Shrestha, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2023.
SPIES Lab’s 15th PhD Graduate — Cagri Arisoy
Cagri Arisoy just defended his PhD dissertation.
A comprehensive study of “cognitive security”, with many new insights dissecting the weakest link in the security chain.
Cagri Arisoy will soon be starting as a tenure-track assistant professor in Turkey, continuing to break new grounds in the field.
Congratulations! The 15th PhD graduate of the lab.
SPIES Lab’s 14th PhD Graduate — Zengrui Liu
Zengrui Liu just defended his PhD dissertation. Solid work on browser fingerprint spoofing (aka “Gummy Browsers“), and the measurement of regulatory compliance (aka “opted out yet tracked“) and the use of fingerprinting in tracking.
SPIES Lab’s 14th PhD graduate! Congratulations!
Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2023
FaceReader: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Signs and Vital Sign Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors
Tianfang Zhang, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023.
Paper accepted to PETS 2024
Opted Out, Yet Tracked: Are Regulations Enough to Protect Your Privacy?
Zengrui Liu, Umar Iqbal and Nitesh Saxena
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)/Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). July 2024.
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Paper accepted to CNS 2023
- Speaker Anonymity and Voice Conversion Vulnerability: A Speaker Recognition Analysis
Shalini Saini, Nitesh Saxena.
In Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2023.